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173 of 175 found the following review helpful:
 Terrible ghosting and triple ball effect Dec 26, 2007
By Joe T.
I received my 4069f about 10 days ago and just hooked it up after Direct TV installed my HD dish on this past Saturday. I have the Direct TV DVR and it came with an HDMI cable. I first noticed a problem when watching football. On a far shot when the ball is going through the air you see multiple balls. I then noticed trails when watching Law and Order. When someone turned their head you would see trailing. I called Samsung and they stated there is a known issue with this model and I require a firmware update to get rid of what they called triple ball effect. How do they ship out a product with such a major flaw is beyond me but hopefully the firmware upgrade will correct the problem. They ship it out to you on a thumb drive and then you plug it into the USB port. I will post what happens after I receive and install the upgrade.
Update 12/28/2007:
Okay after writing this review I started to read the reviews for the Samsung 4071f and noticed users were experiencing some of the problems as with my 4069f unit. There was a good bit of talk about the 120hz being a problem and basically useless. I went into setup and turned off the 120hz option and poof the ghosting on tv shows like Law and Order and CSI vanished. Samsung support had me turn off digital noise reduction previously. If I turn either option on the ghosting appears but with them off the picture is great. However, the triple ball effect (TBE) is still present when watching football. I should receive the firmware update in the mail today or tomorrow so hopefully that will remedy the TBE problem.
Update 1/16/2008:
Okay, as I said in my last update, turning off the Auto Motion Plus 120hz cured most of the problems. I waited for the firmware update to be mailed out but never received it (Samsung input my mailing address incorrectly). They did send me an email with a link to the firmware and instructions on how to do the upgrade. Installing the firmware onto a thumb drive and then onto the tv was pretty straight forward. One thing to note is the email link for the firmware expires in 1 week so download it along with the instructions. Also, the tv will only update if there is a newer firmware version on the thumb drive.
I went through and uncompressed the firmware onto the jump drive. Important Note: The firmare is labled for the 4071 model. These models are virtually identical and share the same firmware!!! After loading the firmware I set the Auto Motion Plus to low and the triple ball effect is indeed gone. Samsung recommends setting Auto Motion Plus to low and ONLY for sporting events and other programs with fast moving motion. They say to turn it off for regular programs. Here is the URL to what Samsung says about TBE on the 4071 model: For some reason the URL won't post but if you go to the Samsung site under Support and then News and Alerts you will see a report for the Triple Ball Effect and LNT series 71 LCDs. This also applies to the 69 series; I highly recommend reading this alert!
29 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 excellent true 1080p/120 Hz Dec 16, 2007
By Luca De Simone
"lucades"
Samsung LNT4069FX 40" 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV
If you are looking for a 1080p with 120Hz refresh rate, this is the right choice. I had this TV for about 2 weeks and I am absolutely satisfied.
It is a light, very nice looking TV. Has an amazing matte screen (less reflective) and has all the features you will need for the future.
The standard HDTV is still 720p on cable, but this TV is 1080p and has a refresh rate of 120Hz, that allows perfect showing of movies (120 is a multiple of 24, the number of slides per second in a film).
The speakers are good and I feel no need for buying new ones.
has a USB port where you can put a flash drive to see pictures or play music.
Even the regular TV signal (480) looks fine.
Great TV and great Shipping company (eagle) with a great service.
33 of 36 found the following review helpful:
One of the best LCD TVs Nov 28, 2007
By Z. Sabir
I spent two weeks in researching the best TV I can find under $2000. I looked at various TVs including Plasma, DLP, LCDs at Bestbuy and Frys and read lots of reviews on different websites before making a final decision.
Arguably, LCD is the best technology these days and Samsung and Sony are the leaders in this space. Among all the LCDs out there LNT 4069 is the best with unbelievable picture quality. You have got to watch NFL and NBA games in HD on this TV. Once you have this TV don't try to play too much with the Default settings. For your cable channels, TV will adjust the screen size according to quality of the signal.
33 of 36 found the following review helpful:
Samsung 4069f beats the Sony 40W3000 Jan 11, 2008
By Elleirdad
"elleirdad"
The people at Sony will not like this post. I have been a loyal Sony TV buyer since 1978. I have owned three XBR models. (Remember the one with the foot pedals?) And, yet, I just returned my 40W3000 and decided to go with a Samsung.
I could not afford the 40XBR4 and considered buying a heavily discounted XBR2. But, the comments in this forum suggested that it would be better to go with the 40W3000 due to some regular improvements. I also wanted to avoid the XBR2 clouds issue. So, I studied the W3000 at the store and it looked good on the wall.
I got the W3000 home and connected it to my Comcast DVR via HDMI and to my Panny DVD player via component video (480i). I do not have a game player and I have not jumped into hi-res DVD, yet. So, to be fair, I am dealing with a 1080i Comcast input and a 480i DVD input. I cannot tell you about a 1080p input.
With great anticipation, I turned on the w3000 and I did not get a WOW. The colors looked muted and the people looked pale. My daughter said that there was an unnatural green tint to the picture -- and that the greens looked artificial. But, I saw in this forum that all the calibration choices and began the process. I re-seated the cables and tried different inputs.
Now, for the great test. Fortunately, I still owned my 32XBR400 set! I could do a side-by-side comparison on the identical video feed! I hooked up the Comcast box to the XBR tube TV via component video and the new 40W3000 by HDMI.
My goal -- get the new set to have the same quality picture as my eight year old tube TV. Could it be done?
Well -- I spent days on it with no luck. I tried several settings from the spreadsheet, a couple of others in the forum, and some choices by myself. I ran the Video Essentials DVD and tried to get the optimum settings. I tweaked while looking at both monitors. Nothing was as good as the 32XBR400. Not even close.
To be fair, I watched a few movies to see if the input made a difference. But, Harry Potter looked sickly and the clothes on the Devil Wears Prada were drab. (The whites were beautiful, by the way.)
Then, my other daughter came by and watched Devil with me. She noticed that the pixels did not keep up with the motion in the running scenes. After she pointed that out, the set was ruined for me due to what I now call the "slow pixel" problem. I tried other DVDs and even noticed the problem when faces turned. I turned enhancements on and off. The problem was still there.
OK. Perhaps this set was a bad unit. Maybe an exchange would make a difference. (It was an August manufacture date.)
I started by returning to where it began -- the wall of screens at the store. I brought my own DVDs and was ready to annoy the sales person. But, it only took me a few seconds in front of the wall to see the "slow pixel" problem. Even if I could get the colors right, those slow pixels would ruin the set.
Since this is the top-of-the-line non-XBR set, I knew at that moment that if I wanted to be happy with my TV, I was leaving Sony after 30 years.
What next? Well, I know that Samsung makes most of the Sony LCD panels. And, my PCs are all connected to Samsung monitors. (And, the AVS Forum was favorable.) So, lets look at the Sammys.
Right next to the Sony was the Samsung 4071f. It had a beautiful picture, but I immediately dismissed it due to glare. The glossy screen would not work in my sunny family room. However, the Samsung 4069f is a very new set with a matte screen. It wasn't even on the wall of TVs at the store. But, they had one in stock that found its way to my credit card and into my house. It has a matte screen and is less wide than the 4071f.
I was ready to be disappointed. I was ready to believe that it would be drab and that I would need to start exchanging cable boxes and buying a new DVD player. (My wife would love that.)
Guess what. The Samsung picture is stunning -- I said WOW. It is vibrant and has a fantastic picture. The standard setting was very close to the 32XBR400 in color quality with my side-by-side test. A smile crept across my face. I know that there is some picture tweaking ahead of me. But, that will be a labor of love. I watched Harry -- without a skin condition -- and even enjoyed the Discovery Channel HD. I could not see any slow pixels (perhaps due to the 120Hz refresh rate, but I don't know.)
Finally, the SD test. I like Bravo, BBC America, and the SciFi Channel. All of them are in SD here. The pictures looked great on the Samsung.
Sorry Sony. And, sorry to those in this forum who love the 40w3000. It was a hard decision for me. But, I have a new video partner in the Samsung 4069f. I have already invited people over to my house to watch the Pats game on Saturday night. (It is a good year to be a Boston sports fan.)
I hope that my experience has been useful. It is very hard to walk away from 30 years of telling friends and family to buy a Sony. Now, I will say to buy Sony for your tube sets and Samsung for LCD.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Great tv.....here are the calibration settings I got after running Avia II Jan 20, 2008
By Michael Kane
"World Traveler Extraordinaire + Self-Proclaimed Czar of Poker"
Here are the calibration settings for 4069FX that I got after running AVIA II
Contrast: 100
Brightness: 41
Sharpness: 100
Color: 49
Tinit 48
Backlight: 10
Color Tone: Normal
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